Corporation plans to roll out 10 smart city projects by January

COIMBATORE: The city corporation plans to start nearly 10 projects under the smart city project by January.

Apart from setting up transaction advisor for the lake development projects and the non-motorised corridor, the city corporation plans to make their offices plastic free.The city corporation commissioner, K Vijaya Karthikeyan and other engineers took part in a video conference with the representatives of the ministry of Urban development.

In the review meeting, civic body listed out the various developments and also stated that tenders for several projects would be floated by January.

"We will call for tenders for making DB Road and TV Samy Road as smart roads very soon. These roads will have smart benches with solar powered roof tops and also pedestrian friendly pathways," said an official.